Chapter 313 - Skeletal Beauty
As soon as the leg stepped into his divine realm, Han Wu instantly recognized a familiar presence. He completely ignored the ongoing war and turned to the gate, where he could see an ethereal beauty standing before it.
Standing at least two meters tall, she had a slender frame and a captivating yet cold beauty. Her body exuded an aura that deterred any living being from getting close, but despite the chill, Han Wu couldn’t shake the feeling that her presence felt strangely familiar.
“You... Are you Skelly?” Han Wu asked, confused. The answer became apparent the moment she approached and hugged him. He could smell a faint aromatic scent as she held him close, and his doubt was instantly replaced with recognition.
Just then, Huang Shengjun’s massive goblin army invaded. Equipped with excellent gear, they easily infiltrated deep into Han Wu’s divine realm, leaving a path of complete destruction in their wake. Marching proudly behind the goblin army were two ten thousand-meter-tall Goblin Kings. With their massive wooden clubs, they crushed any being that tried to stop the goblin army.
The lady simply scoffed when she looked at the goblins. Several summoning arrays floated around her, releasing huge waves of skeletons that stormed forward. They crashed into the goblin army, but the goblins’ formation was strong enough to pulverize the skeletons into bone fragments upon contact.
This, however, was far from the end. The lady began summoning more Osteomancers. These new units used the huge amount of bone fragments on the battlefield to transform into ten-meter-tall bone giants that easily breached the goblin army’s formation.
The goblin army’s formation was strong, but it was no match for the powerful Osteomancers, beings that stood at the peak of Heroic life forms. With their formation shattered, the goblins lost their advantage.
The giant Goblin Kings began to attack the bone giants, their massive blows obliterating a single giant with each strike. However, the lady never stopped summoning. More and more Osteomancers poured out from the summoning arrays, each one stronger than the last.
One by one, more powerful units appeared. First came Heroic Osteomancers, then Lords, and finally High Lords. In the end, the ten-thousand-meter-tall Goblin Kings found themselves surrounded by thousands of bone giants, each a thousand meters tall.
The sheer number of bone giants was overwhelming. They swarmed the Goblin Kings, tripping and pinning them to the ground before pummeling them to death.
Huang Shengjun panicked at the sight. With two of his Goblin Kings killed, he instantly realized that the lady wasn’t someone he could win against.
His mind raced, desperately trying to recall if he had ever seen that woman before. Who is she? Why haven’t I seen her before? And why is she hugging that brat?
In his worry, Huang Shengjun resorted to using his teacher's reputation to intimidate the lady.
“Miss, this is a war between me and him, so please don’t interfere,” he said. “My teacher is the fearsome Butcher, working under the God King of War. My teacher would be more than happy to befriend you if you stop interfering now.”
Xu Hai was the angriest of the Major Gods observing the war. He deemed Huang Shengjun’s use of his teacher’s fame to threaten his opponents as less than honorable. It was no different from saying, “I’m related to someone famous. Let me go, and I’ll say a few good words for you.” The possibility that the Butcher might gain such a powerful new ally also did not please him.
Butcher, on the other hand, was greatly pleased with his student. He admired Huang Shengjun’s cunning in using his name for leverage, and it appeared that Huang Shengjun had learned the core of his power.
In the Butcher’s opinion, to win a war, one must abandon their morality. He saw Huang Shengjun’s use of his name to threaten his opponent as a form of psychological warfare—an attempt to make his enemies back down without a fight by using the resources available to him.
Huang Shengjun’s plan, however, backfired spectacularly. Not only did the lady completely ignore his threats, but she also activated a more powerful summoning array, calling forth Osteomancer Kings to join the battle.
The summoned Osteomancer Kings started absorbing the numerous bone fragments on the battlefield, growing rapidly and soon reaching ten thousand meters in height. Hundreds of these massive bone giants appeared, instantly surrounding the battlefield.
Facing an army of hundreds of bone giants, each ten thousand meters tall, Huang Shengjun immediately gave up all hope of fighting. He had nothing that could even begin to stand against such a force.
He quickly ordered his goblin army to retreat, but the lady wasn’t going to let them go so easily. With a single command, the hundreds of Osteomancer Kings began their assault, their every stomp and punch causing the ground to tremble severely. Huang Shengjun’s army suffered a lethal blow from the attack, but Han Wu’s divine realm also suffered heavy damage.
Realizing he couldn’t recall his goblin army from Han Wu’s divine realm, Huang Shengjun made a ruthless and swift decision. He abandoned his goblin army and quickly retreated to his own divine realm to surrender. This closed the gate between the two realms, preventing the Osteomancer Kings from invading his divine realm.
The battle had finally ended, but the Major Gods had no idea how to decide the victor. Han Wu’s divine realm was more or less destroyed, and he had lost a lot of units. Similarly, Huang Shengjun had also suffered heavy casualties, and a lot of buildings in his divine realm had been destroyed.
The only one who truly emerged victorious was the mysterious lady who had somehow appeared in Han Wu’s divine realm. She had converted nearly every dead unit on the battlefield into subordinate skeletons.
Who is she? Is she one of Han Wu’s units, or an invader from a foreign civilization? the Major Gods wondered.
Xu Hai, visibly relaxed now Han Wu was safe despite the heavy losses to his divine realm, broke the silence in the room.
“Who do you think won?”
“It’s obviously Han Wu. Huang Shengjun surrendered, so he lost,” Feng stated with conviction. Having just been brushed aside by the Butcher and having seen the young man’s potential, Feng had decided to support Han Wu at all costs.
Su Lan nodded in agreement. “That’s right. Also, it seems the Skeleton God is connected to Han Wu for some reason, so she should count as his ally.”
Xu Hai nodded. “Yes, that’s true,” he said, chiming in. “At the very least, Huang Shengjun has lost more than Han Wu.”
Although the Butcher didn’t like the decision of the other three, he was vastly outnumbered and couldn’t go against them. He had no choice but to grudgingly command Huang Shengjun to give up the Exquisite Skill Gem after the latter has emerged from his divine realm. Huang Shengjun was initially unwilling, but under the Butcher’s fierce glare, he ultimately surrendered it.
Xu Hai gleefully received the Exquisite Skill Gem. He was going to pass it to Han Wu the moment the boy emerged from his divine realm.
Han Wu, however, was feeling quite miserable, witnessing the destruction within his divine realm.